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MarginalizedAadhaar: Episode 3 (Assam)

by: Subhashish Panigrahi

Publication date: 2020-06-28

Usage: Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International

Topics: Aadhaar, NRC, Coronavirus, COVID, COVID19, MarginalizedAadhaar, Assam, India, Usha Ramanathan, Ashraful Hussain, Hiren Gohain, Subhashish Panigrahi, Yoti

Publisher: Subhashish Panigrahi, Yoti and O Foundation

Language: English; Hindi

Rights: © 2020. Subhashish Panigrahi, Yoti & O Foundation. CC-BY-SA 4.0 International.

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This episode of MarginalizedAadhaar series focuses on the Indian state of Assam where the state of digital identity has taken a critical turn.

On august 31, 2019, 1.9 million people of the total population of 31 million in the Assam were declared illegal in the National Register of Citizens (NRC) that documents the legal citizens of india.Two-third of these 1.9 million people who are hindus have a fair chance to regain their citizenship through a law called citizenship amendment act. But the remaining one-third Muslims — who have always known India as their home — are living with the uncertainty of being asked to leave the country. Assamese activist Ashraful Hussain has been working closely with many Assamese Muslims who have been wrongfully left out in the last version of the NRC list. The large part of the conversations are around NRC with reference to Aadhaar, India’s national digital identity as the latter seems to be closely linked to NRC. The episode also features commentary from noted Indian law researcher Usha Ramanathan and Assamese social scientist Hiren Gohain.

MarginalizedAadhaar is a project led by Subhashish Panigrahi as a part of the Yoti Digital Identity Fellowship.

Credits

Producer and Director: Subhashish Panigrahi

Video: Ashraful Hussain

Video, Cinematography, Edited and Music by Subhashish Panigrahi

Additional Footage: 1) NewsClickin. "NRC: Heartless State Throws a Pregnant Woman in Jail in Assam". Accessed July 23, 2020. (CC-BY 3.0); 2) NewsClickin. "Exclusive: Citizenship Bill Contradicts the Assam Accord, Says Hiren Gohain" Accessed July 23, 2020. (CC-BY 3.0); 3) Incredible India. "Awesome Assam | North East india". https://web.archive.org/web/*/https:/... (CC-BY 3.0); 4) Stills of maps from © OpenStreetMap contributors (with graphics from Mapbox). Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL). More: https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright

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Additional Background Music: Subhashish Panigrahi (CC-BY-SA 4.0)